Good photos of the patch below. It seems to be a woven patch, not embroidered.

Can anyone elaborate on the significance of the two dragons?

Robert Pearlman

quote:Originally posted by lucspace:Can anyone elaborate on the significance of the two dragons?

Only a guess, but if you look at the mouths of the two dragons, they resemble the two docking configurations, one with an open mouth and the other with a protruding tongue (?), mimicking the male and female connections.

To be clear: the original was created by an unknown, Chinese artist. Jorge RE-created it, based on the best known sources so far. He recently also made better versions of some older Soyuz and Mir patches, which replaced earlier versions on Joachim's website. Note that Jorge added his initials JCR, so that future generations will be able to distinguish between the originals and Jorge's drawings.

KAPTEC

Thank you Joachim, thank you Erik.

I do not want to be considered as the "creator" of these patches. I'm only gifting you my best REPRODUCTIONS of them, clarifying from the beginning ("JCR") that I'm NOT who made them. I'm only a guy who tries to draw something very difficult or impossible to find.

pargoo

Lovely work as always, Jorges!

hoorenz

I have posted two new images of this patch on our Flickr photostream. One is a photo taken under an angle, which I tried to flatten as much as possible; the other is a scan of the same patch with not too high resolution.